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Since Blu-ray seems to be winning the HD format war, it might be a good idea to pick the winning side and buy a Blu-ray Entertainment Center. The Samsung HT-BD2 features a Samsung Blu-ray player and an 1100 watt 7.1 channel setup that supports dts-HD and Dolby True HD for exceptional sound.

Pioneer just announced its new GPS unit with Bluetooth, iPod connectivity, and voice activation. It’s an all in one semi-portable unit that will do everything for you while driving except pleasure your nether regions. It features a 5.8 inch touchscreen and has voice controls so you can keep your hands on the wheel. Get out of my dreams, get into my car.

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The Koreans have come up with an ingenious credit card for both online and in-store purchases; the Shinhan Card. You simply plug it into your USB port and when you make an online purchase it fills in the form for you, securely. It’s not yet available anywhere outside of Korea yet, but it should be spreading pretty soon.

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LG has just released its Vaccine Flash Drive, a lifeline for your vulnerable PC. It not only holds up to 8 GB of data, it comes standard with antivirus that can be used on any PC while you’re on the go. So feel safe when you use a PC (at least kind of).

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If your laptop is getting a bit overheated, you can attach this DigitalCowboy CRF-102 Notebook Fan. It’s a huge 22cm fan that rotates at 600rpm at a quiet 20dB. It also looks kind of cool and futuristic.

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It has come to pass that the boys from Activision are putting legal pressure on Sony to keep them from releasing the patch that was supposed to release last week. The patch for EA & Harmonix’s Rock Band for PS3 was supposed to allow the Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controller for Guitar Hero III for PS3 to function with Rock Band.

Activision must really be pissed off at the whole idea of Rock Band because they’re doing everything to prevent compatibility with the game. Perhaps they don’t realize that this move won’t help them sell more copies of Guitar Hero III, rather it might just boost Rock Band peripheral sales, namely the Fender Stratocaster controllers for Rock Band.

Someone in their corporate brass must think this a good move, unfortunately nobody else does. Rock Band for PS3 goes for $170, and it’s well worth it.

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The Shaper Image Digital Picture Frame does things that most other displays out there don’t. It’s also a weather station which gives you the indoor and outdoor temperatures, humidity, forecast, and even moon phase. It also comes with an alarm clock that sports a precise U.S. Atomic Clock. The best news is, you don’t have to use the scary picture of the kid if you don’t want to, you can use your own pictures.

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The Phantom Lapboard is pretty handy for gamers or more relaxed users to sit back and use the keyboard and mouse while on the sofa. Priced at $130, it won’t damage your wallet too much this holiday season. However, there is one problem with Phantom’s new Lapboard peripheral… there’s no shipping date available yet. So supposedly it’s available for purchase, but with no said date, who knows when you’ll get it? Maybe Phantom can provide some insight to when they’re mysterious Lapboard will ship, but as of yet, no one else can.

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In celebration of the new Iron Man movie, a talented Lego artist named Arvo has made this sick looking Iron Man creation out of nothing more than Legos. That’s all there is to say about that, and no it won’t stop bullets.

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The Infinity miPC ain’t half bad. It’s a UMPC without a keyboard but doesn’t lack much else. It not only plays music and video but also records it, has a built-in FM tuner, supports DivX and XviD, and functions as a GPS system when its docked. If you need to get work done on the go, the miPC offers a mobile Microsoft Office, it can handle VoIP, Email, browsing and IM. It comes with Tele Atlas navigation software, which includes maps of the US and Canada with text-to-voice directions. It features a 4.3 inch touchscreen, SD slot, 30GB HDD, 128MB of RAM and connectivity via USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. That’s what we know about it now, price not available yet, though it’s going to release soon.

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